Google Ranking the Search Engines

main SEs ordered by PR

[papamaku]

I'm sure this has been done before, but i had some time to kill so did a search for 'http' on Google/ie and listed down the result number of each major Search Engine:

1 Yahoo
2 Google
5 Altavista
8 Excite
10 Lycos
11 Infoseek/GO
17 WebCrawler
19 Hotbot
20 Go/Infoseek
29 Northern Light
33 Google Groups
35 Dogpile
42 Alltheweb
51 Ask Jeeves
56 MSN
57 Yahooligans
80 MetaCrawler
117 Looksmart
201 Ask Jeeves Kids
210 Goto
212 Teoma
367 Mamma
452 Overture

I don't know what you guys think, but one disadvanage of PageRank is that Infoseek, Excite and other SEs/sites that are now pretty minor but were once big are way up there ahead of MSN and (just realised I must have missed AOL as I paged through results) etc. Coz I imagine a few years ago lots of people linked to these and those links are still there and being counted.

[Kackle]

PageRank ossifies all the e-ruins out there. Since the dot-com crash, there are tons of sites that are essentially unattended. This is probably more noticeable with non-commercial content.

For a depressing exercise in futility, try tracking down all the links your seven-year-old site accumulated, in order to get those other webmasters to update their link and point to your new domain. You'll be lucky to hit a ten percent success rate.

And the 301 redirect, recommended by Google, requires several one-month cycles to finally take hold (other engines are even worse than Google). Even after the transition, you're still in the mud because the PageRank didn't transfer.

[Yidaki]

The disussion subline main SEs ordered by PR is not correct. The numbers you've posted is just the order and position for a particular search (this case 'http'). What's the pr of each site? And who searches for 'http'? ;)